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UNITED sT rEs HAROLD RUSGHER, on NEW "roman. Y.

SECTION'AL CABINET DOOR.

Application filed. December 2 7, 1924. SeriaINo. 758,426.

This invention relates to a sectional cabinet door and has for an object to provide an improved construction wherein the door may at one time be locked so as to close the cabinet and at another moved to a position out of the way.

Another object of the invention is to provide a door for sectional cabinets whereby any number of sections may be associated together and the doors interlocked in such a manner as to protect all of the sections and to connect the sections together.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a door for sectional cabinets which may be moved entirely out of the way for exposing the entire front of the cabinet when not in use and which may be moved to cover the front of the cabinet when in use,

the structures of the respective doors being such that they will interlock when in a closed position to present a substantially continuous door structure over the entire assembled cabinet.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a perspective view of a sectional cabinet with a door embodying the invention applied thereto.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view through the structure shown in Figure 1, the same being on an enlarged scale. v

Figure 3 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view showing how the doors of one section may be moved to a position out of the way. a

Figure 4 is a fragmentary sectional view similar to Figure 2 but with the center part removed and illustrating how the top and bottom parts of the door are locked.

Figure 5 is a view similar to Figure 3 but with the door removed so as to illustrate how the pin operates in the slot.

Referring to the accompanying drawing by numerals, 1 indicates a sectional cabinet provided with a door structure 2 at the front, which door structure is divided into separate doors 3, 4 and 5 connected or associated with the individual sections 6, 7 and 8. If desired, the cabinet could be positioned on a set of drawers 9 as shown in Figure 1 or these drawers could be eliminated. Each of the sections of the cabinet is provided with a door storage chamber 10 divided from the other parts of the section by a suitable division plate 11. Also, in the upper part of each side of each cabinet there is door is provided with a hinge 14 for dividing the respective doors into sections 15 and 16. An angle bar 17 is connected to the upper edge of section 15 of door 3 and in back of the upper part of section 15 of door 3 is arranged a lock 18 adapted to be unlocked by a key. This lock may be of any desired kind and co-acts with a hook 19 over which part of the locking structure snaps when the parts are raised to the bosition shown in Figure 2. Extending from opposite edges of the section 15 of each door is a pin 20 which is positioned in the vertical section of groove 12 when the door is closed but which is moved around to a position in the horizontal section of groove 12 when the door is placed in the storage chamber 10 as illustrated in Figure 3. It will be noted that each of the sections 3 is provided with a plate 21 which is rigidly secured to section 15 and which overlaps the hinge 14 so as to stiffen the same when the door is in use. The lower edge of section 16 of door 3 is provided with a bent up portion or hook 22 which preferably extends for the full width of the door and which, when in operative position, interlocks with the hook 23 extending for the full length of the upper edge of door 4-. The lower edge of door 4 is also provided with a hook 26L interlocking with hook 25, said hooks being constructed similar to hooks 22 and 23. The lower edge of the door 5 is provided with a hook 26 similar to book 24, said hook interlocking with the hook 27 of the section 28, which section is pivotally connected at 29 to plate 30, which plate is rigidly secured to the bottom of the section 8. In each of the sections there is provided a pin 31 to prevent the lower edge of each of the doors from swinging inwardly.

When the parts are in the position shown in Figure 2 and it is desired to secure access to the interior of the various sections, the key is inserted into lock 18 and the lock disengaged from hook 19 whereupon all of the doors will drop downwardly a shortdistance or until hook 26 strikes against the plate 30. When this occurs, the section 28 is swung outwardly to the position shown in Figure 4 and then door 5 moved upwardly until it is disengaged from book 24.

IThe section 16 of door 5 is then swung outwardly and the hinge portion let swung inwardly until hook 25 may move downwardly past hook 24 whereupon the sections and 16 may be folded together and the pin 20 caused to move into the horizontal section of groove 12. The door 4t is then folded in like manner and finally door 3. After all of the doors have been thus folded and placed in the chambers 10, free access may be had to any of the sections of the cabinet. lVhen it is again desired to close the cabinet, the doors are moved out to their outer position and the various hooks are caused to interlock, after which, section 28 is moved to asubstantially vertical position and the entire door structure raised until the parts assume the position shown in Figure 2. The raising action may be done by pressing upwardly on the angle bars 17 and this action is carried out until the lock 18 snaps over hook 19. It will, of course, be evident that a greater or less nu aber of so"- tions could be used without departing from the spirit of the invention. For instance, if it is desired to eliminate one section, it will be necessary to remove the middle section, namely, section 7 and the other two sections would then function as above described. If additional sections were to be used, section 6 would be disconnected, the additional sections mounted 011 section 7 and finally section 6 would be again placed in position.

What I claim is:

1. A. sectional cabinet, comprising a cabinet body formed of a plurality of independent sections, means for connecting said sections together, each of said sections having a door formed in two sections hingedly connected together, each section of said cabinet being formed with an L-shaped groove, part of said groove for each section being near the front of the cabinet and extending vertically and the other part extending horizontally, a pin extending fromeach of said doors and extending into the groove of that particular section whereby the doors may be folded and moved to a position within the sections, means for supporting said doors when moved into said sections, means for locking one of said doors against movement when closed, and hook members arranged on the edges of the doors adapted to inter lock when the doors are closed.

2. A sectional cabinet formed of a plurality of sections, each section having a partition near the upper end for forming a storage compartment, coor formed in two sections hingedly connected together, said door being adapted to be folded and inserted into said storage chamber, the doors of the respective section's being formed with interlocking means adapted to be interlocked when the doors are closed to form substantially one large door structure for the cabinet, and a key operated lock carried by one the doors for preventing said interlocking means from becoming disengaged when the doors are closed.

3. A sectional cabinet, comprising a phi-- rality of sections, each section having a division wall near the top, said division wall acting with the remaining part 01": the section for producing a storage chamber, said section having an L-shaped groove in the wall, the vertical leg of the groove being parallel to the front of the section, and a door for said section, said door being formed in sections hingedly connected together, the topmost section of said door having a pin extending into said groove whereby said door may be folded and inserted into said storage chamber, said pin acting to guide the door as it is inserted and removed.

A sectional cabinet, comprising a plurality of superimposed sections, each section having a door formed in a plurality of parts hingedly connected together, each of said doors having pin, an Lshaped groove in each section for accommodating said pins, the topmost door having a hook at'the lower edge, the remaining doors having hooks at the upper and lower edges, said hooks being adapted to be engaged so as to make a ubstantially continuous door structure from the top to the bot-tom of the cabinet when the doors are closed, a swinging section having a hook, said swinging section being connected to the bottom of the lowermost section and interlocking with the lower hook of the lowermost door, and a key operated lock carried by the upper part of the uppermost door for normally locking said'doors in a closed and raised position.

HAROLD RUSCl-IER. 

